Helpful flowcharts for archivists in a pandemic

Some of my favorite archives flowcharts don’t quite apply during a pandemic emergency. Here, I updated them for you!

Do I need to wear gloves in the archives during a pandemic? Close your archives, and save those gloves for the people who really need them.

Do I need to wear gloves in the archives? A helpful flow chart

Do you need an archives intern during a pandemic? This one is barely a flowchart. Pay your interns and send them home.

Do you need an archives intern? A helpful flow chart

Will digitization solve my problem during a pandemic? Not if you have people doing the digitizing! Use your time at home to plan for making your future digitization better.

Will digitization solve my problem? A helpful flow chart

More valentines for archivists

Last year I made valentines for archivists, and here are some more!

Photo credit: Jas. Heekin & Co. from Miami U. Libraries – Digital Collections

Photo credit: The title page to the 1832 third edition of John Lee Comstock’s ”A System of Natural Philosophy” from Wikipedia

Do I need to wear gloves in the archives? A helpful flow chart

Feel free to print this out for your archives or send a copy to every journalist you know. Click through for a high-res version.

Will you be handling photographs? You might need to wear gloves. Are you a bandleader, performing a medical procedures, or Mickey Mouse? You are already wearing gloves. Otherwise? Go crazy with those naked fingers (but not too crazy, you’re in an archives!)